WordPress was born in 2003 when Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg created a fork of the defunct b2/cafelog CMS created by French PHP programmer Michel Valdrighi in 2001.
The need for an elegant and well-designed personal publishing system was evident even then. Today, WordPress is based on PHP and MySQL, is GPLv2 licensed, and is also the platform of choice for more than 42% of all websites on the internet.
This open source WordPress project has evolved progressively over time, with the support of expert developers and enthusiasts, designers, scientists, bloggers and others. WordPress offers the possibility for anyone to create and share any content. People with little experience in technology, design or programming can use it "just like that", and experts can customise it almost without limits.
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This is one of the support plugins I usually install when I do optimisation tasks. It's light, simple and useful. It only does one thing. It doesn't have any settings or configuration. Install, activate and you're done. GenTime inspects the time it takes to generate each page you visit and displays it in
This is a scenario that I have encountered more than once when faced with optimising some WordPress installations that had a lot of active plugins and the client didn't want to, or couldn't, do without any of them. If a plugin is well written it should not load anything on those pages where
Every day I like more and more simple and above all light things, and that's how Jeff Starr makes his plugins. A few days ago I was looking for something basic to put a counter in a manual download directory and I remembered Simple Download Counter by Plugin Planet. The plugin supports both
For months I've had a draft on the back burner that I'll publish, or not, someday and it's titled something like "Things WordPress should have natively". So that's it, a list of what I think are basic, necessary or very useful things that would be nice to be included in WP core. One
The first beta of WordPress 6.4 is now available for download and testing and includes the latest five versions of Gutenberg, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6 along with the upcoming 16.7 version which is pending release. As already announced in August, among the things that can already be tested is the lightbox for
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